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I actually read about the pregnancy pact in Time Magazine. Very interesting. Kind of sad because the girls come from a failing fishing village where they basically have no future whatsoever. So the girls all swore to get pregnant together, and raise their children together so they could have something to look forward to in life, have the unconditional love of a child and the support of their peers. The same thing happens in SA you just don’t hear about people making pacts about it.

My sister could tell you loads of things about the repeat abortion thing. Teenagers go around having random sex and if they get pregnant, they just go to the hospital for an “operation” to get rid of the “problem” and then they’re out again with no worries in world, back to their skanky ways.

Oh, and the STD rate. Lets not even go there. Nevermind that they aren’t having protected sex in the first place, which only really helps cut pregnancy and AIDS rates, but what about all the genital warts, herpes, syphillis, ghonorrhea or crabs that condoms don’t prevent you from getting? It’s creepy I tell you.

It’s odd, and yes, the stats are scary, but it took me a while to realize that teen sex and teen pregnancies aren’t a new thing. It’s something that’s been going on for time immemorial–it’s only because it’s in the mainstream news and being brought to people’s attention that it shocks. Doesn’t mean that it never happened previously, tho.